ܩܣܪ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Ancient Greek Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar), itself ultimately from Latin Caesar. Uses for modern monarchs are semantic loans from borrowed Arabic قَيْصَر (qayṣar), itself semantic loans from Russian царь (carʹ) and German Kaiser.

Pronunciation

• (Standard) IPA^(key): [qeːsar.]

Proper noun

ܩܹܣܲܪ • (qēsar) m

1. Caesar (Roman cognomen, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar)
2. Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a byname of the incumbent)

Noun

ܩܹܣܲܪ • (qēsar) m sg (plural ܩܹܣܲܪ̈ܵܣ (qēsarrās) or ܩܹܣܪܹ̈ܐ (qēsrē), feminine ܩܹܣܲܪܬܵܐ (qēsartā))

1. Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a generic title)
2. tsar, czar (title of Slavic monarchs)
3. Kaiser (title of German emperors)
4. Kayser, Qaisar, Caesar (title of Ottoman Sultans after the conquest of Constantinople)

Derived terms

• ܩܹܣܪܵܝܵܐ (qēsrāyā)
• ܩܹܣܲܪܝܵܐ (qēsaryā)

Classical Syriac

Alternative forms

• ܩܐܣܪ (qēʾsār)
• ܩܗܣܐܪ (qēhsāʾr)
• ܩܨܪ (qēṣār)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar), from Latin Caesar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈqe.sɑr]

Noun

ܩܣܪ • (qēsār) m (plural ܩܣܪܘ or ܩܣܪܣ)

1. caesar, emperor
2. (figuratively) refuge

References

• “qysr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2017-10-09
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 324b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 512a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1388b